Interesting, thanks. It shows that the font used was
modified from the one we used in SAX (Sharp APL in Unix)
and other places, having the alphabet being slanted
Courier rather than American Typewriter Light Italic.
But the elevated Greek letters are definitely there.
At 19:31 -0500 2007/03/11, Devon McCormick wrote:
Joey - I put up a page as part of a FAQ on issues of notation that I'm
working on:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/APLNotationExamples
It includes samples from the DoA.
On 3/11/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, exactly. <rho>p has a "distinctive look" too...
At 18:37 -0500 2007/03/11, Devon McCormick wrote:
Does this mean that alpha and omega appear to float a little above the
baseline
when inserted into a line of plain (e.g. Times Roman) text? If so,
that's
what the
DoA looks like.
On 3/11/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
I say "I believe" above, because I'm relying on memory
since I don't have subscription access to the DoA
on the ACM site. A sure sign that it was my font is
the vertical placement of the Greek letters - I had
them on the "function center" so that expressions like
<alpha> + <omega> aligned vertically. This was always
a controversial choice, and perhaps even more argued
was my choice of italic (rather than slanted) lower
case alphabetics... Certainly my font was the one used
in Eugene McDonnell's "Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short".
...
All of this discussion, and the folks (e.g. Roger and
Devon) who wince at the difficulty of displaying old
papers are the things Ken thought a lot about when he
made the tough decision to leave the lovely APL symbols
behind. Practicality over esthetics...
>>- joey
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